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A 20-year-old Corbin woman has been charged with murder after she gave birth to a baby girl in a visitors' restroom at a state prison in La Grange on Sunday and hid the baby in a trash bin, police said. The baby was found dead hours later.

Kentucky State Police arrested Ashley Nicole Cox on Monday and charged her with first-degree murder and concealing the birth of an infant. Cox was being held at the Oldham County Jail.

Preliminary autopsy results show her baby was alive and healthy when she was born at the Roederer Correctional Complex, police said. The cause of death has not been determined.

According to an arrest citation, Cox is accused of forcing toilet paper into the baby's mouth until it was unable to breathe.

Cox was visiting inmate Justin Bell, 21, at the medium-security men's prison Sunday morning when she went to the bathroom near the visiting room, according to state police and Lisa Lamb, spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Corrections.

Cox had arrived about 8:45 a.m. with two other people, and after passing through security entered the visiting room about 10 a.m., Lamb said. It was not apparent that Cox was in labor when she went to the single-stall restroom about 10:55 a.m., Lamb said.

“No one heard anything,” she said. “But when the staff noticed that she'd been in there too long, they knocked on the door, got her to open the door and saw the blood.”

She said the staff reported that Cox had been in the restroom for 10 to 12 minutes.

Lamb said she's not sure what explanation Cox gave, but she did not tell the staff she'd given birth.

“At no time did Cox indicate she was in distress, call out for help, or try and obtain help while at the prison,” Lamb said.

A 20-year-old Corbin woman has been charged with murder after she gave birth to a baby girl in a visitors' restroom at a state prison in La Grange on Sunday and hid the baby in a trash bin, police said. The baby was found dead hours later.

Kentucky State Police arrested Ashley Nicole Cox on Monday and charged her with first-degree murder and concealing the birth of an infant. Cox was being held at the Oldham County Jail.

Preliminary autopsy results show her baby was alive and healthy when she was born at the Roederer Correctional Complex, police said. The cause of death has not been determined.

According to an arrest citation, Cox is accused of forcing toilet paper into the baby's mouth until it was unable to breathe.

Cox was visiting inmate Justin Bell, 21, at the medium-security men's prison Sunday morning when she went to the bathroom near the visiting room, according to state police and Lisa Lamb, spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Corrections.

Cox had arrived about 8:45 a.m. with two other people, and after passing through security entered the visiting room about 10 a.m., Lamb said. It was not apparent that Cox was in labor when she went to the single-stall restroom about 10:55 a.m., Lamb said.

“No one heard anything,” she said. “But when the staff noticed that she'd been in there too long, they knocked on the door, got her to open the door and saw the blood.”

She said the staff reported that Cox had been in the restroom for 10 to 12 minutes.

Lamb said she's not sure what explanation Cox gave, but she did not tell the staff she'd given birth.

“At no time did Cox indicate she was in distress, call out for help, or try and obtain help while at the prison,” Lamb said.

It never ends. Everytime we thought we've heard it all, you get something like "Stuffed toilet paper in the baby's mouth until she stopped breathing."

i'm glad that this woman at least didn't get away with it, but I can't believe that prison officials didn't nail her right then. They said they found the baby several hours later...if they had started a search right then, I wonder if there would have been time to save her. Likely not, but I'll always wonder.

This so sad. A baby is never trash! I understand that this young woman perhaps found herself in a difficult situation. Perhaps no money, boyfriend in prison. Maybe she didn't want the boyfriend to know because he wasn't the father. He could of done the "math".

I guess we won't know why and even if we did it doesn't change the reality that an innocent child had toliet paper stuffed in her mouth so she was silenced before she even had a voice!